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Livia took out a holy card with Jesus image and said: "Here is the One I will marry."
Sister Agostina
Refusing offers of marriage, and, believing she had a vocation to religious life, Livia travelled to Rome with an uncle at the age of 22, with the aim of entering a religious order. She was turned away, but a few months later was accepted into the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret and took the name of Agostina. Some had suggested that she sought religious life to escape hard work.
To them she is said to have replied, "I wish to choose a Congregation in which there is work both day and night."
This did not deter Sr. Agostina because she did not need words to tell others about God; her actions were so imbued with the love of God and neighbor that her patients grasped everything she was teaching them.
Tuberculosis
While working in the tuberculosis ward, Sister contracted the disease. She received Viaticum and then recovered, miraculously. She did not give up...
She requested to work with tubercular patients since she was already infected.
Forgiveness, repentance
She was taken to a bed, no longer able to speak. Her superior asked her if she forgave the murderer, who had escaped. She nodded, Yes. She was smiling. She was saying, Blessed Mother, help me. A few moments later she died. Two days later her funeral was held, on the same day that her killer was arrested. He was sentenced to life although the Saint's family asked for mercy. He repented, received the Last Sacraments, then died in prison a year later.
Sources:
Ann Ball in MODERN SAINTS, BOOK ONE, Tan Books, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur http://semperaltius.com/agostina.htm